This is the place to showcase my book collection of primarily of Nick Carter and Carter Brown books. I started collecting with these two authors back in 1980 while on a fishing trip with my father and grandfather to Northern Minnesota.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

In the city room of the Courier,
a reporter blocks out the clatter of typewriters to tell Miami the
truth. In the past week, three murders have been committed in Miami
Beach, and Timothy Rourke is the only person who sees the connection. As
the mayor and the chief of police deny rumors of a crime wave, Rourke
hollers from page one: Organized crime has taken over Miami, and the
bloodshed has only just begun. Rourke is beaten to a pulp for
exposing the mob's dirty dealings, and then he discovers a hot-eyed
blonde in his apartment packing a .32. The situation is spinning out of
control, and only one man can save the city from itself: Mike Shayne. He
left Miami for New Orleans after the death of his beloved, and he will
return with all the fury of an avenging angel.

Bonus Covers

Robert McGinnis Cover

Robert McGinnis Cover

Printing History

Written by Davis Dresser (1904-1977)

Dodd Mead & Company

1945

Dell Publishing Company

#222 1948

D291 1959

#5386 June 1968

#5386 1970

Trivia

Originally published as “The Vanishing Blonde,” Mystery Book Magazine, December 1945